HEY! YOU ARE ENOUGH

The happiest moment in your life is not when you can afford to buy anything you want, travel around the world, mingle with top persons in the world, eat anything at any five-star restaurant in the world, the list goes on. The happiest and the most fulfilling moment in your life will be when you realize that with or without all these afore-mentioned accomplishments, YOU ARE ENOUGH!!!

You are enough as a person, a human being created wonderfully and fearfully and you are enough for the purpose for which you were made.

Knowing you are enough is not a licence to be a mediocre. No! It is a licence to be ambitious, to desire to accomplish great things because you know that you are deserving. It is a licence to wait for breakthroughs with your head held high about yourself, knowing that with or without that accomplishment, YOU ARE ENOUGH! It is a licence not to let how many goals you achieve determine how valuable you are considered, because without that goal, YOU ARE ENOUGH! It is a licence not to be held down by depression for opportunities that seemed not to work out because without that opportunity, YOU ARE ENOUGH!

SAY IT: I AM ENOUGH! I AM ESTEEMED! I WAS BEFORE THE GOALS AND TARGETS AND I WILL REMAIN AFTER THE GOALS AND TARGETS. BECAUSE WITH OR WITHOUT THEM, I AM ENOUGH!

Your joy should not be conditional upon achieving a set goal or target. Your joy must not wait for breakthroughs to happen. It must not tarry till helpers come. It must not be kept pending till the door opens. The breakthrough should meet you with your shoulder held high in self-esteem. The helpers should meet you with your smiles intact. The doors should open to meet a faith-filled you because whether or not they open, that doesn't meddle with how you regard yourself.

Goals and targets, desires and ambitions, will never finish. The moment you accomplish one goal is the moment you will set another. The moment your desire is accomplished is the same moment you will desire again. The standard will keep going up and you will keep climbing the ladder. Hence, you should not postpone your happiness because of achieving a goal or an ambition. Celebrate you and your daily accomplishments.

The moment you tie your worth, value or esteem to what you have not attained, you'll live a miserable life. It will open you up to jealousy, envy, low self-esteem and other vices. You will hate yourself until you get that target. You will think that you will appreciate yourself better if you get there. Getting that target will not solve the problem of self-hate because, other targets will be born once you reach that set target you were grinding yourself to attain. Remember, there is always something to achieve. For example, you want to get into the tertiary institution, then after you do, you want to graduate from the school, after that, you want to get your Masters degree after that...the goals will never finish!

Dissociate your self-esteem from the goals you set or expectations you have. You are the best with or without them. If the goals don't get accomplished, it is not because you are not worth it or deserving of it. Maybe, there's something better for you that beats whatever you lost or didn't get. Don't leave with the thought that there's someone better than you and that is why you didn't succeed. Yes, there may be someone better at something than you but not better than you. You are the best version of yourself!

LOOK AT THOSE GOALS, DESIRES, AMBITIONS, TARGETS AND TELL THEM: 

"Hey you! I want to achieve you because I want to, not because you make me who I am. I will get to you not because you make me worthy, esteemed or valued. In God's eyes, I am complete and perfect so also in my eyes. Even in my weakness or shortcoming, I am wanted, I am desired, I am needed. Therefore, as I work towards achieving you, I don't tie my worth, value or being pleased with myself to accomplishing you because I WAS BEFORE YOU CAME AND I WILL BE AFTER YOU ARE ACCOMPLISHED! I am the one that will accomplish you and not you that will accomplish my joy because it is there already. It is not you that will accomplish my worth because I am worthy; I am worthy of every good thing. Peradventure I don't achieve you, I AM STILL ENOUGH!"

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